benchmark comparison

Though Samsung never really acknowledged it did anything wrong vis-à-vis artificially boosting benchmarks in the past, last week brought the surprising and refreshing news of sneaky code being removed from Galaxy devices with Android 4.4 KitKat upgrades. Technically, this should greatly increase the credibility of “synthetic tests” on Samsung-made Android gadgets, as well as for

Finding a niche for Sony’s fresh new Xperia Z1 Compact, formerly known on the down low as the Z1 Mini and wrongfully assumed to be one and the same as the Z1s, is no easy task. On the one hand, though Sony’s marketing department was much craftier than Samsung’s or HTC’s by evading the meager-sounding

Oh no, we didn’t! Oh yes, we did! Added a new installment to our epic high-end smartphone benchmarking saga, that is. Or rather we’re adding it in the following lines. Which is downright scandalous for some, since, you know, benchmarks have become the biggest taboo around following the cheating allegations directed to Samsung and that

By popular demand and hopefully presumably to the utter despair and hopelessness of Apple fanboys, we’re already back with another spectacular installment of our high-end smartphone benchmarking saga. Well, not so much “ours” as rounded up from a number of external sources, but you know how it is. Not everyone is important enough and not

If it’s not obvious already, you’re on an Android blog. And you’re reading the words of a relentless, unapologetic (wink, wink) Android aficionado. But that doesn’t mean I, as well as everyone here at The Droid Guy, don’t like to keep an open mind and just discard everything that doesn’t run Google’s silky smooth mobile

Times are changing, mobile technology is advancing, so it’s only logical for us to once again revisit the benchmark smackdown that should in theory show beyond the shadow of a doubt what the world’s strongest smartphone is. Why only three? As I hope you all remember, we’ve started this series of benchmark comparisons a couple

It was only one month ago (to the day, actually) that I first pitted the fastest Android smartphones (at that time) against one another in an attempt to find out which was the best of the best. Though controversial and, according to some, silly, benchmarks were the tool I used for my comparison, only I

It’s time. Time to decide once and for all what is the fastest, most technically impressive smartphone in the world. Today. As objectively as it is humanly possible. How are we going to do that? Simple, we’ll take three four of the Android top dogs and pit them against each other in a series of

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